Quick believers need broad shoulders.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

The only people who you should get even with are those who have helped you.

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

I race to win, not to please people

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.